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yond other individuals. In the next chapter, theologian Don Browning also embraces the concept of inclusive fitness and, through the writings of Thomas Aquinas, shows how religion serves the human need for meaning and connection through the ethics they advocate, the congregations they form, the instituti

did Nygren oppose the caritas view of Christian love? The answer is that the meaning of love as caritas did exactly what Nygren thought Paul and Luther, his theological heroes, did not do. In the classic Roman Catholic view, love as caritas builds on eros. Caritas was seen to include natural desi

al importance of belief for such investigation, see the essays by W. Clark Gilpin and Tanya Luhrmann in this volume. See Luhrmann in this volume. Thomas Aquinas is one prominent theologian in the Christian tradition who highlights this idea: "creation ... is the very dependency of the created act of being

Aquinas, Summo Contra Gentiles, Book Two: Creation, chapters 31-38, pp. 91-115. See, for example, Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians (1535), in Luther's Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1964), vols. 26-27. Thomas Aquinas again provides a clear theologi

such investigation, see the essays by W. Clark Gilpin and Tanya Luhrmann in this volume. Pa at Q »e |127 ¢ 1 . . See Luhrmann in this volume. * Thomas Aquinas is one prominent theologian in the Christian tradition who highlights this idea: “creation... is the very dependency of the created act of being upon

Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book Two: Creation, chapters 31-38, pp. 91-115. ‘ See, for example, Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians (1535), in Luther’s Works, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (St Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House, 1964), vols. 26-27. * Thomas Aquinas again provides a clear theologic